Susan Choi Quotes

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.

The world is a complex place.

It's a crazy world!

We live in a bewildering world.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

I live in a crazy time.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil and uncertainty. It was difficult for government analysts back in Washington to know just where they were on the map, let alone where they were heading.

When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

I'm happy unless I'm not happy. And I think this is the thing with grief, there is no rhyme or reason to it and it's been completely different to how I thought it was going to be.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.